I traded for a stainless Ruger Vaquero in .44Mag about 6 months ago and have shot it once since then, the accuracy was nothing special It shot a bit low but centered at 25 yds. 2 3/4"
My old SBH I used for comparison shoots 1.5” all day long.
I shoot 240 gr. JSP – 24.2 gr. H110 – Fed 155 almost exclusively out of my .44 Mags.
So I bought some more tools from Brownells and gave it a tune up! I have four .44 Mags so the tools will get used.
First I reamed the cylinder.
Gave it an 11 deg. Forcing cone.
Squared up the muzzle and took a big nick out of the crown with a new 45 deg. Crown.
Polished the action and adjusted the sear notch depth on the hammer. 1.75# Trigger that is sweet! With the OEM springs.
And fitted a Belt Mountain base pin #5
Removed the billboard on the barrel, knocked the high spots off with a file then used Medium grit emery paper and a wood sanding block (following the barrel contour) worked it down to fine emery then finer grits of sand paper. Final polish with 3M Finesse-It #05938 and maroon 3M pad
I bought two front sights of different height from Freedom Arms, had to remove the old front sight, deck the barrel, channel then cut the dovetail. I set the sight down in the barrel slightly so you would not see the rounded barrel under the sight that would make a gap, without decking it first.
http://www.gunblast.com/Freedom_NewSight.htm
I still need to replace the grips with tan ivory micarta.
She is shooting much better now!
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